Ivar Giaever

Ivar Giaever
Ivar Giaever
Ivar Giæver
	Giaever in 1973
Born	April 5, 1929; Bergen, Hordaland, Norway
Died	June 20, 2025 (aged 96); Schenectady, New York, US
Citizenship	Norway; United States (from 1964);
Alma mater	Norwegian Institute of Technology (MEng); Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (PhD);
Known for	Tunneling in superconductors
Spouse	Inger Skramstad (m. 1952; died 2023)
Children	4
Awards	Oliver E. Buckley Prize (1965); Nobel Prize in Physics (1973); Onsager Medal (2003); Gunnerus Medal (2010);
	Scientific career
Fields	Condensed matter physics
Institutions	General Electric Canada; General Electric Research Laboratory; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;
Thesis	The Conductivity and the Hall Effect in Binary Alloys (1964)
Doctoral advisor	Hillard Bell Huntington

Ivar Giaever (April 5, 1929 – June 20, 2025) was a Norwegian-American experimental physicist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leo Esaki and Brian Josephson. One half of the prize was jointly awarded to Esaki and Giaever "for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively."